Built in 1833 as an inn serving the original Huntsville-Tuscaloosa Road as Hendricks/Hendrix Tavern, the house has been, variously, a stagecoach tavern, private residence, physician’s office, and apartments - each, it seems, multiple times in its long history.
1833: James Hendricks
~1853: Henry & Clara Adeline Gillespie Barclift (unsure of date)
1885 December 5: Henry Barclift goes to Cullman to run a hotel, leaving inn with E.B Roberts
1886 February 18: E.B. Roberts represented as proprietor
1886 May 20: Property swap with E.B. McPherson
1906 December 15: William Francis Hendrix
1920 December 3: William Riley Hendrix
1929 January 29: A.J. Buttram
1930 February 12: Nettie Nation
? Edward Shirley Nation
? C. S. Nation
1935 August 26: Emaline Faires Whitehead
1945 April 23: Robert C. “Bob” & Minnie Madison Copeland -
1949 September 22, 1949: Dr. E.T. Brown
? Worth & Irene Ratliff
? Carlton and Pauline Gibbes
1996 Shirley and Juan Ortiz Jr.
2021 Us
questions.
There is so much the history that we are curious about.
For example: If Dr. E.T. Brown purchased the house in 1949, why was it being used by Dr. Sutton in the 1950s?